Downwind and Out: The Strategic Dispersion of Power Plants and Their Pollution
This paper examines if coal power plant owners choose locations that reduce their potential exposure to clean air monitoring and regulations.
Research
Industry Compliance Costs Under the Renewable Fuel Standard: Evidence from Compliance Credits
In this paper, the authors test whether smaller refiners are actually hurt by the RFS. Learn more about the research here.
Rethinking the Value of Life
This research explores the key issues underlying the VSL, including problems with the broader practice of monetizing nonmarket goods.
Leapfrogging Smart Meters
Policymakers should prioritize consumer preferences and innovation instead of imposing specific technologies.
Modifications to Fuel Regulations to Provide Flexibility for E15 and to Elements of the Renewable Identification Number Compliance System
The EPA seeks comment on changes to rules governing sales of E15, a gasoline blend with up to 15% ethanol. Learn more about the research here.
Carbon Pricing in the Private Sector
A broad cross-section of self-reported motives, methods, and prices used by private companies engaging in internal carbon pricing.
What Is the Relationship between Renewable Portfolio Standards and Electricity Prices?
This research examines the effects of renewable portfolio standards (RPS) on electricity prices. Learn more about the research here.
A Review of the Environmental Effects of the Renewable Fuel Standard’s Corn Ethanol Mandate
This research explores the environmental consequences of mandating ethanol in greater detail and makes policy recommendations.
Net Metering in the States
Josh T. Smith, writes about the problems with certain net metering policies and how this cost shift can hurt lower-income households.